Kitty believes that Townsend is madly in love with her and prepared to divorce his wife. The novel opens when Walter discovers his wife's infidelity. Fiction Kindle edition Vintage Digital 186 pages 2009 I do love a good W Somerset Maugham novel and The Painted Veil first published in 1925 is regarded as. In 1927, he settled in the south of France, and lived there until his death in 1965. In Hong Kong Kitty engages in a yearlong affair with Charles Townsend, the assistant colonial secretary, and a married man whose celebrity potential far eclipses Walter's stolid scientific work. His other works include travel books such as On a Chinese Screen, and Don Fernando, essays, criticism, and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. His fame as a short story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, subtitled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. His first play, A Man of Honour, was followed by a series of successes just before and after World War I, and his career in the theatre did not end until 1933 with Sheppey. His position as a successful playwright was being consolidated at the same time. How can I be reasonable To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is a story of love, betrayal, hatred, revenge and redemption. The novel also inspired a 2006 drama movie of the same name (starring Edward Norton and Naomi Watts). Somerset Maugham's 'The Painted Veil.' Follow the story of Kitty Fane, a woman trapped in an unhapp. The Painted Veil is a novel written by W Somerset Maugham in 1925. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. Enter the fascinating world of colonial-era China with W. Thomas' Hospital with a view to practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to letters. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. William Somerset Maugham, famous as novelist, playwright and short-story writer, was born in 1874, and lived in Paris until he was ten. Somerset from Amazons Fiction Books Store.

The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham